This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GW.2ADE/991.1 Message Board Post: If your Dad was born in Fresno County you could write and get his birth certificate. Or whatever county he was born in. It would list his parents and maybe where they were born. Have you tried to get the records of your birth from the hospital? If he was in the military, you might be able to get his military records. Judy/CA